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Python Coding Question (Data Science)

Hello I am having difficulty writing a code in python to do a specific task. I have two text files, Positive.txt and Practice_forhw1.txt. I want to write a script that will check if any words in Practice_forhw1.txt match any of the words in Positive.txt then the word would get replaced with a "+1" in the Practice_forhw1.txt and then print out the Practice_forhw1.txt.  (i.e if the word "happy" is in both Positive.txt and Practice_forhw1.txt then I want the word "happy" to get replaced with a +1 in the Practice_forhw1.txt file.

My poor attempt below:

pos_file = open("Positive.txt", 'r')
#positive words are now in a list
pos_list = pos_file.readlines()
p_file = open("Practice_forhw1.txt", 'r')
p_list = p_file.readlines()

for word in p_list:
if word in p_list == word in pos_list:
word = word.replace(word, '+1')
print (word)

Answer 1

If you have any doubts, please give me comment...

pos_file = open("Positive.txt", 'r')

#positive words are now in a list

# striping newlines and carriage returns

pos_list = [line.strip() for line in pos_file.readlines()]

pos_file.close()

p_file = open("Practice_forhw1.txt", 'r')

# striping newlines and carriage returns

p_list = [line.strip() for line in p_file.readlines()]

p_file.close()

for word in pos_list:

    if word in p_list:

        pos = p_list.index(word)

        if pos!=-1:

            p_list[pos] = "+1"

# restoring elements to file

fout = open("Practice_forhw1.txt", 'w')

print('\n'.join(p_list), file=fout)

fout.close()